29 Verbs to Use for the Word evasion

SEE Glass, Carter, Sr. Col. House sought evasion of party plank, says Glass.

Soon or late in my life, I hoped that I should avenge this evasion.

Use strength, surprise, or what you will, The courtier finds evasions still: Not to be bound by any ties, And never forced to leave his lies.'

He caught the evasion.

How did Ferragut dare to compare these evasions of the law which never did anybody any harm with the job of aiding submarine pirates in continuing their crimes?...

When the Biblical interpreter struggles to reconcile contradictions, or to prove that wrong is right, merely because he is bound to maintain the perfection of the Bible; when to this end he condescends to sophistry and pettifogging evasions; it is difficult to avoid feeling disgust as well as grief.

But he had too much reason to think, that if he made sir William his messenger, he should not be able with any degree of honour to contrive an evasion.

" It was not in me just then to criticize the evasion, or pick out the sophistry from the truth.

"In the second Punic war also, after the battle of Cannae, of the ten Romans whom Hannibal sent to Rome bound by an oath that they would return unless they obtained an agreement for the redemption of prisoners, the censors kept disfranchised those who perjured themselves, making no exception in favor of him who had devised a fraudulent evasion of his oath.

He had not come down to dinner the evening before to meet Mrs. Baxter and the useful people asked to entertain her, but he had seen Mathilde's tear-stained face, and in a few minutes with his father-in-law had encountered one or two evident evasions.

But again he was gone, and nowhere could he see him, the mist favouring his evasion.

This discovery, moreover, soon became important to me, as furnishing a ready evasion of objections against the meagre or puerile views of the Pentateuch; for without very minute inquiry how far I must go to make the defence adequate, I gave a general reply, that the New Testament confessed the imperfections of the older dispensation.

I know some of your qualities that way; your sensitiveness, your uprightness, your fastidious honesty that makes you hate evasions and substitutes,everything you mean when you say sentimentality.

Thus, whenever Tutt seemed to be incubating some evasion of law which seemed more subtly plausible than ordinary she made it a point to call it to Mr. Tutt's attention.

He even meditated an evasion of the law by getting it acted in a place which was not a theatre, and tickets were actually issued for the performance in a saloon which was often used for rehearsals, when a royal warrant peremptorily forbidding such a proceeding was sent down from the palace.

[MANSON notes the evasion with a glance.

" I hoped that my mother-in-law would not notice my evasion, but she was too quick for me.

"All right," returned Jack promptly, with a rising inflection, "Are you going to get up, or shall I haul you out by the heels?" Dade, observing an evasion of that subject also, did some hard thinking while he obediently pulled on his clothes.

[She perceives the evasion.]

Portugal had promptly sent out forces to prevent such an evasion of Portuguese neutrality and had guarded the railway bridges along the line to Rhodesia.

The distance from the scene of war, although it involved an additional cost for transportation, also rendered an evasion of the requirements of neutrality less conspicuous.

Besides,and here again the want of logic seems to culminate into rank absurdity,he was viewed with a purely sentimental abhorrence by some, because he had precluded a reclaimed fugitive from repeating his evasion by roasting the soles of his feet before a fire until the fellow actually died.

All my pet pens are rusty, and must be replaced from the box of stubs, for a stub pen assists one to straightforward, truthful expression, while a fine point suggests evasion, polite equivocation, or thin ideas.

Even if the delegates had been disposed to trifle with their constituents, the leaders themselves would tolerate no evasion on certain cardinal points.

I promisecross my heart and hope to diebut what did he do it for?" Juliana tried humorous evasion.

29 Verbs to Use for the Word  evasion